Thursday, June 7, 2012

How to Install Diablo 3 on Linux

The following tutorial will teach Linux users how to install the Diablo 3 game on their open source operating system.

The third installment in the Diablo franchise, Diablo III, is a dark
horror/fantasy-themed role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by
Blizzard Entertainment.

The game features elements of the hack and slash, action RPG
and dungeon crawl genres. For more details about Diablo 3, you can check
out the official home page or the Wikipedia article.

Editor's note: For this guide, we have used the PlayOnLinux
application. We've tested the tutorial on the current 32-bit release of
the Ubuntu OS, 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin). Apparently, 64-bit users
will not be able to play the game, as there are some 32-bit OpenGL
libraries missing.

As a side note, make sure you meet the
minimum system requirements (especially the graphics card and CPU/RAM)
for playing Diablo III before going through the tutorial!

The PlayOnLinux developers provide binary packages and repositories for
many Linux operating systems, including Fedora, Debian, ArchLinux,
Frugalware and Ubuntu, as well as an universal binary package.

We can't write instructions for all these Linux distributions here, therefore if you use one of the aforementioned OSes, go HERE for detailed installation instructions.

Step 2 – Download Diablo 3

If you have bought the Diablo III DVD Edition, skip to the next step.
If you don't have the money to buy the DVD version and you only have a
Battle.net account with Diablo 3 registered to you, grab the installer
from HERE or from your Battle.net account.

Make sure you have Wine installed on your system. Save the exe file on
your desktop, right click on it and select the "Open With Wine Windows
Program Loader" option...

The Blizzard Downloader window will appear and the setup files will be
downloaded to a location of your choice. It's a big file, about 8 GB so
it will take a while, depending on your Internet connection speed. Also
make sure you have enough free space on the selected hard drive!

Step 3 – Install Diablo 3

Open PlayOnLinux and follow the first time instructions to setup the
application. Once these are finished, you'll see the PlayOnLinux
interface. Click the "Install" button and search Diablo on the new
opened window.

An installation window will appear. Click the "Next" button...

Select the installation method (the setup file – see Step 2 above, or the DVD disc you have bought). Click Next...